It does look beautiful even without the black/grey bits, though I will have to agree with some that the main Name and Registry on the saucer looks a little too curved, tone it back a little and it's perfect

Some one once said that ship looks like a dog dragging his butt on the carpet. Now that's all I can see when I look at that ship.

Yeah, dude. I've seen many who have the same sentiments. What's scary is it's reasonable to assume that CBS approved of it being the Enterprise-F under Perpetual. What in Q's Name were they thinking???

I had my reservations about Ihle's design but it turned out to be more beautiful than I imagined. I'm glad CBS decided to run this contest instead of just making something like Perpetual's Excalibur Class the next Enterprise just because it looks different.